Posted on 10/29/2024 12:11:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
A box containing hundreds of ballots from Miami-Dade County was discovered on the side of Florida’s Turnpike after reportedly falling from an unsecured county truck.
The alarming event, confirmed by the Miami-Dade Elections Department, occurred late Monday night, prompting immediate concerns over election security.
Dashcam footage and cellphone videos captured by concerned citizens reveal the containers strewn across the roadway at Exit 11, near Cutler Bay.
The footage shows the clearly labeled parcels, complete with county barcodes and tracking paperwork meant for managing paper ballots.
A vigilant driver who stumbled upon the abandoned ballots took it upon himself to deliver the items directly to a county police station.
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Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor, stated that the mishap was due to a failure on the part of the county worker responsible for transporting the ballots, according to the Miami Herald.
“The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out,” Christina White said on Tuesday.
White maintained that both containers were sealed upon inspection and that no tampering had occurred, asserting that the ballots had already been scanned and counted.
“Upon arrival at the police department, Election staff verified all seals were intact and nothing was tampered with or damaged,” White told Miami Herald.
“Thankfully, this was observed in real time by upstanding citizens who did the right thing and turned the bin and bag into the police department,” White said.
White quickly announced the dismissal of the employee responsible, stating, “While unintentional, the Elections Department has zero tolerance for error and therefore the employee was terminated.”
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Pretty harsh to terminate the employee. Could’ve just terminated the person’s employment.
...and so; It begins.
No recidivism......................
I remember hearing about a voting machine falling out of a truck on the freeway in Albuquerque (maybe 20 years ago).
I guess the county clerk’s office didn’t have the best and brightest working for them.
LOL
“Fell of the back of the truck”
Like we’ve never heard that one before.
Sooo, they fell off of a turnpike truck.
-PJ
How do they know these are genuine and not well manufactured counterfeits?
“Pretty harsh to terminate the employee.”
😁
We followed behind a pickup truck as it left Lowes with a new fridge in the back, not tied down.
It went thru a traffic light but we had to wait.
When we got about a mile down the road, the fridge was in a ditch all busted up and the guys were standing around scratching their heads.............
I’m so old I remember when it was fur coats falling off of trucks. PETA put an end to that.
“reportedly falling from an unsecured county truck.”
When I was in charge of elections, the Precinct Captains transported voted ballots in their own vehicles. (Sometimes a helicopter.) Not exactly secured. But people were more honest then.
When I was in the Marines, I was a Test Instrument Repair and Calibration Tech.
One day a couple of marines came in to pick up a Hewlett-Packard Signal Generator ($$$$$) that had been in for its annual Calibration.
They signed the paperwork and slid it into the back of a Six-By, a big military truck, but forgot to close the tailgate.
They came back about 15 minutes later and put it on the incoming counter, all busted to hell, and said, “Can you guys fix this?”
It was scrapped................Don’t know whatever happened to the two guys...........
A 6x6 Truck............
-PJ
-PJ
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